Police Tell Eden Prairie Residents To Lock Doors After 3 Recent Robberies
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Eden Prairie police are reminding residents to keep their garage doors closed, their entrances secure and to report suspicious activity after three daytime burglaries in late...
View ArticleStill No Sign Of Missing 7-Year-Old St. Louis Co. Boy
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 7-year-old St Louis County boy and his father are still missing one week after authorities issued a crime alert for the two. Police put out the alert after Wyatt Nordrum’s...
View ArticleOfficer In Officer-Involved Shooting Identified, Charges Filed
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The officer involved in the officer-involved shooting has been identified and the man who was shot has been charged in a crime from earlier that day. Police say Officer Larry...
View ArticleMinn. House Takes On Vikings Proposal In Hearing
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Republican leaders in the state House helped retool a Vikings stadium bill that’s headed for its first committee vote Monday, a new signal of support for a proposal that’s...
View ArticleVikings Sign Ex-Charger WR Bryan Walters
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings have been making plenty of moves this offseason. They’re just not the kind of transactions that bring much attention. The Vikings added to their list of...
View ArticlePrice Throws Four Scoreless; Rays Tie Twins 6-6
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) — Justin Morneau is getting adjusted to his new role. Morneau was named the Twins’ regular designated hitter after missing much of the past two seasons because of injuries,...
View ArticleAfter Teen Overdose, Hastings Police Plan To Investigate Drug, Alcohol...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Hastings authorities are vowing to aggressively investigate drug and underage alcohol access after an 18-year-old high school senior overdosed on heroin in March. The Hasting...
View ArticleCrystal Employees Alter Lifestyles During Lockout
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The daily protests by union workers outside the American Crystal Sugar plant in Moorhead, Minn., have become sporadic, and nine months into the company-imposed lockout, the only hint...
View ArticleMinn. Mom Hurt In Kan. Crash Upgraded To Stable
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota woman whose family was involved in a motor home crash in Kansas that killed five people and injured 13 has been upgraded to stable condition in a Kansas hospital....
View ArticleMinn. Lawmakers Finalizes Teacher Layoff Bill
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota lawmakers have finalized a bill that would let schools lay off teachers based on their performance in the classroom. A conference committee finalized the bill Monday...
View ArticleGarage Fire Kills Man In Western Minn.
HANCOCK, Minn. (AP) — A 53-year-old man is dead after a garage fire in western Minnesota. The Stevens County Sheriff’s Office was called to the fire near Hancock just after 7 p.m. Sunday. The sheriff’s...
View ArticleMom Fights For Law Change After Son’s Sexual Abuse
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A Minnesota family has turned an incredibly painful experience into something positive. A boy sexually abused Jacob Gould, more than once, at his dad’s house in 2005. But Jacob’s...
View ArticleTwins Cities Named 3rd Greenest Place In The U.S.
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The Twin Cities has just been named the third greenest place in the nation. Travel and Leisure Magazine did the rankings and pointed out that there are 46 miles of city bikeways...
View ArticleMinnesota Nurse Describes Devastating RV Crash Scene
JORDAN, Minn. (WCCO) — In all her years working the emergency room, nurse practitioner Mary Mackenburg-Mohn had never seen anything like the trauma that lay before her. She and fellow nurse, Marsha...
View ArticleA Wal-Mart Might Replace 46-Year-Old Drive-In Theatre
COTTAGE VIEW (WCCO) — One of the few remaining drive-in theaters in the Twin Cities might go dark. The Cottage View has been a landmark for decades in Cottage Grove, but now a Super Wal-Mart could go...
View ArticleShould Charities Have To Return Money Donated By Petters?; Gov. To Decide
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It has been more than two years since Tom Petters was found guilty of running a $3.5 billion Ponzi scheme. But the effort to recover money for Petters’ victims, some of which are...
View ArticleAfter 6 Months, Charges Come Down In St. Paul Woman’s Murder
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – After six long months of waiting, a St. Paul family now knows who investigators believed killed their loved one. Police found Megan Neely dead in her St. Paul apartment last...
View ArticleEx-Firefighter Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Distribute Cocaine
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 34-year-old former Minneapolis firefighter has pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine. Brandon Josiha Granger entered his plea Monday...
View ArticleWeather Blog: Wake Up Call
I love the tune from Maroon 5, and you may get an unwanted wake up call overnight. There will be a round of showers passing through, and there could be a few isolated thunderstorms. I’m not expecting...
View ArticleImmigration Officials Arrest 110 In Upper Midwest
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Immigration officials have arrested more than 100 people in the Upper Midwest as part of a nationwide sweep. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday announced the arrests...
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